Date: 17 July 2025 Were You Affected by the Ministry of Defence ARAP Data Breach? You May Be Entitled to Compensation DRM Legal is now representing individuals affected by one of the UK Government’s most serious data breaches, involving thousands of Afghan nationals and families who applied to the Ministry of Defence’s ARAP scheme. The [...]
It is reported that 5,000 radiology images taken at University Hospitals Dorset were accidentally deleted. This occurred during their process of archiving on or around July/August this year. The lost data includes: 214 clinical mammograms ( X-Rays to test for breast cancer) test or duplicate images some scans from different hospitals. How did the incident [...]
On 3 August 2022, Christopher O’Brien, a former health adviser employed by South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust, pleaded guilty at Coventry Magistrates’ Court to unlawfully accessing patient records. What data has been breached and how? Between June and December 2019, he accessed the medical records of 14 patients. The patients were known to him but [...]
City College Norwich revealed that the information of hundreds of applicants has been breached. This ocurred when their details were sent by email to a parent by mistake. The breach occurred in August 2021, while the parent of an applicant was corresponding with the college by email. The parent was sent a spreadsheet which contained [...]
Healthcare services across the United Kingdom process the most sensitive data of millions of people. Medical information is classed as special category data, which needs more protection because it is sensitive. This means that the NHS, your GP or any other organisation handling special category data must process this data lawfully, fairly and transparently and [...]
Bedfordshire Council (“the Council”) has been severely criticised for breaching the data of 100 people with special educational needs (“SEND”). The data breach seems to have happened on Monday 11 May 2022, when the Council was responding to a Freedom of Information Act request. The information was published on a website called whatdotheyknow.com and was [...]
Clinical research company Lakeside Healthcare Research, has been carrying out trials for a new type of COVID vaccination (Valneva) at 27 sites in the UK. At the Corby study site, the research team contacted the participants via email to invite them for a booster vaccine. But the email sent to each participant mistakenly included the [...]
Personal sensitive information of tens of thousands of people has been breached by PSL Print Management. PSL is a consultancy firm working with the NHS. The company who is based in Preston is earning millions from payments from the NHS, according to the Daily Mail. How did the breach happen? The breach was discovered when [...]
Sensitive information about pupils was leaked to parents and students following a data breach at Greensward Academy, in Hockley, Essex. A teacher at the school accidentally shared a mock examinations timetable via Google Classroom, unaware that the document also contained sensitive information. The document was shared with students and parents of students in year 11. [...]
Priory Medical Centre in Warwick closed its medical centre in June 2021. And they relocated to a new surgery with the same name. But outside the unused surgery, they left an unlocked cabinet, which contained patients’ confidential files. The abandoned files contained confidential information about patients, including names, dates of birth, addresses and NHS numbers. [...]